INTERPOL contacted over Polish priest in paedophilia case

The Dominican Republic's attorney general has called on INTERPOL to facilitate the arrest of a Polish priest who has been charged with molesting minors.

Photo: Glowimages

Photo: Glowimages

Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito contacted the intergovernmental organisation after a panel of judges in the Dominican Republic declared Father Wojciech Gil a “fugitive” for failing to return to the country to face charges.

Father Gil, who led a parish in the highland town of Juncalito for close to a decade, had taken children on holiday to Poland earlier this year.

However, when allegations emerged of crimes against minors in recent years, he chose not to return to his post on the Caribbean island.

“We are going to resort to all the necessary judicial resources, both locally and abroad, so this case doesn’t go unpunished,” Francisco Dominguez Brito declared in a statement.

It is understood that Father Gil is currently residing in his family village south of Krakow.